We have discussed the basic ideas of logistic regression in previous post. The purpose of logistic regression is to find the optimal decision boundary which can classify the data with different categorical target feature into different classes. We also introduced the logistic function or sigmoid function as the regression model to find the optimal decision… Read More »

In previous series of posts we discussed simple and multivariate linear regression that can be used to predict target features with continuous values. Besides that, there are other prediction problems with categorical target features and we want to train a model so that we can use it to predict the class of unknown data. Logistic… Read More »

In the previous articles we have discussed the basic concept of simple linear regression; how to measure the error of the regression model so that we can use the gradient descent method to find the global optimum of the regression problem; develop the multivariate linear regression model for real world problems; and how to choose… Read More »

Choosing Learning Rate We introduced an important parameter, the learning rate α, in Linear Regression 2 – Gradient Descent without discussing how to choose its value. In fact, the choice of the learning rate affects the performance of the algorithm significantly. It determines the convergence speed of the gradient descent algorithm, which is the number… Read More »

The Simple Linear Regression can only handle the relationship between the target feature and one descriptive feature, which is not often the case in real life. For example, the number of features in the dataset of our toy example is now expanded to 4, including target feature Rental Price: Size Rental Price Floor Number of… Read More »

In the previous article, Linear Regression 1 – Simple Linear Regression and Cost Function, we introduced the concept of simple linear regression, which is basically to find a regression line model so that the prediction Mw(x) is as close to the y of our training data (x,y) as possible. To find the best… Read More »

Error-based Learning Imagine you are just starting to learn skipping and may occasionally trip over the rope or even fall down. You then try to slightly adjust the jumping speed, height, strength of your arms, your foot balance skill, etc. You may trip again and then continue adjusting your posture and movement. And one day,… Read More »